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- 1990 - 2006 (Creation)
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1 box
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Biographical history
Victoria McManus is a resident of Philadelphia, PA. She writes both fiction and nonfiction, under the names Victoria Janssen and Elspeth Potter, and includes both novels and short stories. Her first novel was the alternate-world fantasy The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover (2008), which has been translated into French, German, and Russian. Her next novel, The Moonlight Mistress (2009), features the early days of World War One and werewolves; it has been translated into Italian and has an electronic-only sequel available, “Under Her Uniform.” McManus' third novel The Duke and the Pirate Queen (2010), is a sort-of sequel to The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover, focusing on different characters. In 2021-2022, under the name of Victoria Janssen, she released A Place of Refuge, a new science fiction queer romance space opera consisting of three books: Finding Refuge, Accepting Refuge, and Embracing Refuge.
Her first published short story was "Water Music" (2000), which appeared in Best Lesbian Erotica 2001 from Cleis Press, and she has since written a number of other stories that have been anthologized in various erotica collections. Her nonfiction mostly appears at the blogs Heroes and Heartbreakers (romance) and The Criminal Element (mystery, suspense, and thrillers). She also reviews anonymously for Publishers Weekly.
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1-3/1: Exposures [unpublished WWI novel, later titled 1919], partial typescript with handwritten and typescript reviewer comments, undated
1-3/2: Exposures [unpublished WWI novel, later titled 1919], reviewer critiques, 2003, undated
1-3/3: Exposures [unpublished WWI novel, later titled 1919], typescript reviewer critiques, 2004, undated
1/3/4: A Greener Shadow [unpublished], partial typescript with handwritten edits, July 1997
1-3/5: A Greener Shadow [unpublished], partial typescript, November 1997
1-3/6: A Greener Shadow [unpublished], typescript synopsis, December 1997
1-3/7: A Greener Shadow [unpublished], partial typescript with handwritten reviewer comments, December 1997
1-3/8: A Greener Shadow [unpublished], partial typescript with handwritten reviewer comments, December 1997
1-3/9: A Greener Shadow [unpublished], partial typescript with handwritten edits and reviewer comments, 1997 - 1998
1-3/10: A Greener Shadow [unpublished], typescript chapter 4, January 1998
1-3/11: A Greener Shadow [unpublished], reviewer comments [reviewer 'Susan Beth'], January - April 1998
1-3/12: A Greener Shadow [unpublished], outline, August 1998; and Science article on DNA, August 21, 1998
1-3/13: A Greener Shadow [unpublished], notes and outline, 1998, undated
1-3/14: A Greener Shadow [unpublished], typescript 'skeleton draft' with handwritten edits and handwritten/typescript editorial comments, March 1998
1-3/15: A Greener Shadow [unpublished], typescript first draft prologue with handwritten edits, August 1998
1-3/16: A Greener Shadow [unpublished], typescript draft, 1998 - 1999
1-3/17: A Greener Shadow [unpublished], typescripts of chapters 2, 4 - 6, with handwritten reviewer comments [reviewer 'Jennifer Baldino'], 1998, undated
1-3/18: A Greener Shadow [unpublished], typescripts of chapter 5 with handwritten reviewer comments, 1998?
1-3/19: A Greener Shadow [unpublished], partial typescript with handwritten reviewer comments [reviewer 'Holly'], undated
1-3/20: A Greener Shadow [unpublished], typescript pages with handwritten reviewer comments, undated
1-3/21: A Greener Shadow [unpublished], typescript chapter 4 with handwritten reviewer comments, undated
1-3/22: A Greener Shadow [unpublished], partial typescript with handwritten edits, 2002?
1-3/23: 1919 [unpublished], notebook, 1996
1-3/24: 1919 [unpublished], notebook for chapters 9 - 10, February - March 2004
1-3/25: 1919 [unpublished], typescript, synopsis and pages 1 - 132, 2005
1-3/26: 1919 [unpublished], typescript, pages 133 - 236, 2005
1-3/27: 1919 [unpublished], typescript, pages 237 - 329, 2005
1-3/28: 1919 [unpublished], typescript, pages 330 - 457, 2005
1-3/29: 1919 [unpublished], notes and notecards, undated
1-3/30: 1919 [unpublished], typescript, undated
1-3/31: 1919 [unpublished], typescript pages with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/32: 1919 [unpublished], backup files on CD-ROM, April 2004, December 2004
1-3/33: Trench Monsters [unpublished], handwritten pages, 2006?
1-3/34: Trench Monsters [unpublished], typescript chapter 1 (5 copies) with handwritten reviewer comments, 2006?
1-3/35: Trench Monsters [unpublished], typescript chapter 1 with handwritten reviewer comments [reviewer 'Judith Berman'], 2006?
1-3/36: Trench Monsters [unpublished], reviewer critiques, 2006
1-3/37: Voice of the Giraffe [unpublished], notebooks and handwritten draft, vols. 1 - 3, undated
1-3/38: Voice of the Giraffe [unpublished], notebook, undated
1-3/39: Voice of the Giraffe [unpublished], typescript partial first draft with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/40: Voice of the Giraffe [unpublished], partial typescripts with reviewer comments, 1998 - 2001
1-3/41: Voice of the Giraffe [unpublished], partial typescripts with handwritten and typescript reviewer comments, 2000 - 2001, undated
1-3/42: Voice of the Giraffe [unpublished], partial typescripts with handwritten and typescript reviewer comments, 2001, undated
1-3/43: "Adoption" [unpublished], typescript, undated
1-3/44: "Au Vanille" [unpublished Blake's 7 fanfiction], typescript with handwritten edits, and typescript, 1999
1-3/45: "1919 Story" [unpublished, later titled "Brave Are Cowards All"], typescript with handwritten edits, August 2001
1-3/46: "Brave Are Cowards All" [unpublished], typescript, 2001?
1-3/47: "Brave Are Cowards All" [unpublished], typescript with handwritten edits and reviewer comments, undated
1-3/48: "Hog Man" [unpublished], typescript drafts, 1994, undated; and rejection letter, 1994
1-3/49: "Michaela's Story" [unpublished], typescript, undated; and rejection letter from Marion Zimmer Bradley, 1994
1-3/50: "Minimalism" [unpublished], typescript, undated
1-3/51: "Misty Mountain Chase" [unpublished], typescript draft, undated